Living languages,
empowered cultures
We revitalize and document Brazilian indigenous languages through technology, education, and community governance.
We revitalize and document Brazilian indigenous languages through technology, education, and community governance.
Of the more than 270 indigenous languages spoken in Brazil, many face extinction. Each lost language is a universe of knowledge that disappears.
More than 40% of Brazilian indigenous languages are threatened with extinction in the coming decades.
Most languages lack adequate teaching materials for use in indigenous schools.
Indigenous youth often lose contact with their ancestral languages during formal education.
A collaborative process that puts communities at the center of every decision.
FPIC agreements ensure communities control the entire process and their data.
Collaborative linguistic documentation with speakers, elders, and local educators.
Dictionaries, linguistic corpora, and learning tools accessible online.
Locally trained language models to assist in content generation.
Books, primers, and printed resources for classroom use.
Ongoing training for indigenous educators to use the resources.
Our work is guided by rigorous principles of consent and protection of traditional knowledge.
Free, Prior and Informed Consent in all projects.
Each community defines their own access rules.
Sacred content protected by anthropological standards.
All resources receive permanent digital identifiers.
Numbers that represent empowered communities and preserved cultures.
The partnership with the Enawenê-Nawê State Indigenous School resulted in bilingual teaching materials used daily by teachers and students, strengthening language transmission to new generations.
"The materials transformed our way of teaching. Now our students can learn in their own language."
— Michel Correa, School Director
Dictionaries, linguistic corpora, and educational materials for each partner community.
Interactive games, AI-powered speech exercises, and translation activities for learning indigenous languages.
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